Composite image of floats from the Homecoming Parade. Included are floats for Emmanuel College, "Sock Vaxine"/"The Filth Team", Commerce, Pharmacy, St. Thomas More College, St. Andrew's College, as well as images of students and floats congregating in the Bowl.

Composite image of 9 images of floats from the Homecoming parade moving in downtown Saskatoon. Businesses such as the Capitol Theatre, Wynne's Style Shoppe, Metropolitan Stores, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Clark's Interior Furnishings. Floats include "Philosophy: Queen of Science", Administration: Coordinating Industries, and others.

Medical float in the Homecoming Parade which reads "The Hippocratic [Oath?]". Hotel Western on 2nd Avenue in background.

Students, many in traditional dress, standing in front of the memorial in the upstairs lounge of the Memorial Union Building..

Floats and parade goers in the Homecoming Parade near the Memorial Union Building.

A large group of children sit on the floor of the President's Residence. Adults line the perimeter of the room. From back of photograph: "men standing: Dr. J. [John V.] Bateman, Dr. [Steward] Basterfield, [Arthur] Collingwood?, Father Rush, Evan Hardy, Dr. [James] Mawdsley, J. Nielson [James Neilson]. 2 girls in left corner - Hardy". Also identified are Grace Hardy, Lorna Russell, Mrs. Grace Russell, Henry Spencer, Alan Vanterpool, Ronnie Oliver, Moira Bateman, Jo Vanterpool. both Mawdsley twins, Ruthie Russell and Sylvia Morton.

Bio/Historical Note: Year given as 1936 as found in Greystone Yearbook 1909-1959 Golden Jubilee Edition, pg. [22].

A group of students, some holding University of Saskatchewan pennants, sitting on the stage in Convocation Hall.

Four different shots of different acts of the Varsity Variety show. Ukrainian dancers, girls in cowgirl outfits, a capella group (?), a stage set for a skit with signs for the "deans office", "bingeneering society", "book store: if loaded apply here".

Men working on hydraulic equipment in Mechanical Engineering lab.

A group of men and a woman sitting at a dining table set with a teapot and other dinnerware. From back of photo: "A corner of the dining hall. Rev. J.T. Tuckey, Miss Tuckey and students, 1910".

The first class of Nursing graduates standing in academic robes. Dr. Hudson seated at left, Kathleen Ellis, Director of Nursing, seated at right. From back of photo: "Front row seated: Dr. Hudson, Miss Ellis".

Female graduates posed with flowers and diplomas on the steps of the administration building.

Group photo of executive. Names on back of photo: "Seated: Agnes Elizabeth McDermid (treasurer), Georgina Esther King (president), Hope Weir (secretary). Standing: Olive Pearl King, Frances Helen Schiltz, Agnes Mary Valens, Marion Henley Dewdney, Sybilia Kydd, Marie Esler (vice president), May Kathleen Canty."

Bio/Historical Note: Georgina Esther King was the first female student registered in the University of Saskatchewan. She graduated with a degree in English in 1913, the first year for students who completed their entire time at the U of S. The April 1913 Convocation issue of The Sheaf indicates Georgina was a member of the Glee Club, a councillor in the Arts and Science Literary Society Executive, and president of the Pente Kai Deka Society. The class prophecy: “Miss G.E. King, teacher of art, will give lessons in china painting at her studio on Tor Hill.” Georgina King was born 28 April 1887 near Regina, Northwest Territories on Tor Hill, the family farm on Boggy Creek. Georgina married Edmund Sears Mandeville (1887-1962) in 1916. Jean Gordon Bayer, assistant professor of English at the U of S, was a bridesmaid. Georgina met her husband who worked with the Regina Water System facilities located on the King property. Janet Frances Mandeville was born in 1917 and her siblings Esther Ridley Mandeville Hickey (1918-2008) and Malcolm King Mandeville (1920-1926) soon followed. The young family relocated to Florida in 1925 after Malcolm suffered a stroke and a physician recommended he find a milder climate. He visited British Columbia but found it too cold, and after eleven trips by train they moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. In January 1926, Georgina and her three children went down to Coffee Pot Bayou and while wading got caught in the water. Janet and Esther were able to get out, but Georgina and Malcolm were pulled under and drowned. Janet almost went under going back into the water to retrieve her doll. The two sisters, age eight and seven, were found wandering in the area by workmen and taken home. The girls were reared by Georgina’s older sister, Janet Catherine King Estrich (1917-2001), and their father. Georgina and Malcolm are buried at Royal Palm South Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Bio/Historical Note: From the Greek for ‘five and ten,’ Pente Kai Deka was created on 8 April 1911 with the first 15 women students on campus – five “big sisters” and ten “little sisters.” Every woman entering the University automatically became a member. Eventually the group became its own directorate within the Student Representative Council, and the PKD president, the vice-president of the SRC. Activities of the group included a Big Sister-Little Sister Dance, June in January, Jeanboree, a Spring Tea and a Frosh Week fashion show. As the sexual revolution loomed large in the late 1960s women on campus grew increasingly ambivalent toward the group, which had been seen by many female students as irrelevant and antiquated since midway through the decade. It was this attitude, as well as the sheer increase in the number of women and students in general at the University by the late 1960s that led to the group’s demise after the 1968-1969 academic year.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. David M. Baltzan, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient. Image possibly taken near time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. David Mortimer Baltzan was born on 10 May 1897 in Bessarabia, a province of Tsarist Russia, now Moldova, and came to Canada with his parents in 1905. His father started up the Saskatchewan Hide and Fur Company in Saskatoon. Dr. Baltzan excelled at school, and was the first in his family to become a doctor. He graduated from McGill University in 1920, completed his practical experience in New York, and then studied internal medicine in Edinburgh, London, Vienna and, finally, at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Dr. Baltzan eventually chose Saskatoon as the site for his ground-breaking practice, fired by the need for modern innovations in internal medicine. Against all advice Dr. Baltzan eschewed surgery, which was making others rich, to invest in a portable electrocardiograph (ECG) and an X-ray machine for his office. In spite of predictions that he could not succeed, he created the Baltzan Associate Medical Clinic, enticed his three sons and a daughter-in-law to join him, and stayed active for fifty years. Among other contributions, he was a member of the Hall Commission, which created the blueprint for public health care in Canada. Dr. Baltzan was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Saskatchewan in 1969. He died in Saskatoon on 15 June 1983.
The sons of David Baltzan were Marcel Alter (Marc) Baltzan (1929-2005), Donald Myer Baltzan (1933-1988) and Richard (Dick) Baltzan (born 1935). Dr. Betty Lou Baltzan, Marc’s then-wife, was part of the medical team that performed Canada’s second kidney transplant at University Hospital in Saskatoon in 1964.
Baltzan Bay, Boulevard, Cove, Crescent, Place and Terrace in the Evergreen neighborhood are named in the family’s honour (2020).

Jean G. Bayer, Department of English, 1915-1945, crouching by two ducks at an unknown location.

Bio/Historical Note: Jean Gordon Bayer joined the staff of the university in 1909 as President Walter Murray's secretary. Bayer previously had been his secretary at Dalhousie University. She arrived in Saskatoon in time to witness the registration of the first students. She was the President’s secretary, university librarian, and unofficial adviser to students. Bayer helped choose the university colours and motto, and was one of the founders of the Pente Kai Deka Society. In 1915, due to staff shortages caused by the Great War, Bayer was appointed Instructor in English. She proved so effective she was encouraged to continue, and took a year of study at Bedford College, London, prior to being formally appointed to the faculty. Like Murray, “she possessed a wide vision of the function of a university and, like him, she…dedicated herself to Saskatchewan.” “A most kindly guide” to her students, “many caught their first glimpse of what a literary ‘salon’ of the great days might have been in the genial atmosphere of tea and literature in her book-lined suite. She was a most loyal and cooperative colleague….She made it seem an easy thing to be happy and brave.” When Bayer returned from London in 1921 she was named Assistant Professor of English, a rank rarely held by women in that period. Bayer retained the post until her death in 1945. A scholarship in her name is available to a student who has completed at least two years of university studies